Barbara Graver | AuDHD Author
Autistic POV
How Autism and ADHD Overlap
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How Autism and ADHD Overlap

How ADHD Can Derail Autistic Special Interests (and some thoughts on faith)

About This Episode

In this episode of the podcast I talk about my own lived experience of how autism and ADHD overlap and sometimes complicate each other. This is only my take and the truth is, my understanding of this is still very much in process. I also talk a bit about faith after the midpoint.

Links for Further Reading

Some of links promised in the podcast are:

Charting My Autistic Traits

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May 20, 2025
Charting My Autistic Traits

A Constellation of Traits | To me, the idea of a linear autism spectrum was always a little confusing. Recently however while talking about varying degrees of psychic ability...

Getting Diagnosed with ADHD (Video)

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September 22, 2025
Getting Diagnosed with ADHD (Video)

I got the results of my ADHD evaluation today and wanted to share it. The additional diagnosis will affect my content a bit going forward because I’m going to be focusing on both Autism and ADHD—mostly in regard to writing but I’ll probably talk about how it overlaps some of my other interests as well.

Autism and the Narrative Process

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April 22, 2024
Autism and the Narrative Process

I have no instinct for the personal. —W.B. Yeats, Unsent Letter 1909 | This post is about autism and how it may affect the ability to narrate in some autistic people. It should...

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